Busy For Fun Blogs: THE HAT SQUAD: PETER HASKELL

Peter Haskell has passed away. He was a frequent guest star in Toobworld productions, as pointed out in the Los Angeles Times obituary:

[He] won his first TV role in "Death Valley Days" in 1964.Dozens of TV appearances followed on series including "Ben Casey," "Combat!," "Lassie," "The Big Valley," "Mannix," "Medical Center," "Barnaby Jones," "Vega$," "Murder, She Wrote," "Matlock" and the 2009 series finale of "ER."

Haskell played writer-producer Kevin Grant on "Bracken's World," a melodramatic backstage look at the film industry that ran on NBC in 1969 and '70. And he had a stint on daytime TV in the early 1980s on the ABC soap "Ryan's Hope."

For reasons of space, that obit couldn't mention everything he did in the TV Universe. But three roles which I think deserve mention are in 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'Columbo', and a sweet cameo in a Christmas episode of 'Frasier'.

Here are some of the shows in which Peter Haskell appeared: